Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veteran. Obviously he had been able to rally, at least for the moment, the deeply divided Vietnamese army. This week he was in charge, along with a military junta of fellow officers-in charge of the army, of the war, and to a large extent of the heavy U.S. stake in his torn country...
...three days, the best that Jack and Arnie could manage was a first-place tie with Spain's Sebastian Miguel and Ramon Sota. Nicklaus was spraying his approaches, and Palmer's putting was, in his own word, "terrible." Grunted Nicklaus: "The prestige of Uncle Sam is at stake...
...construction on a site only 154 yds. from the Berlin Wall. Like modern atonal music, the hall is asymmetrical, a polygonal loft in concrete that from its mustard-colored exterior resembles a huge aluminum-roofed circus tent with stiff ridgepoles. Berliners hope that landscaping will mitigate its bareness, and stake the hall's claim to greatness on its interior...
...advocate of Negro civil rights. Many younger Mormons believe that the church has no choice but to open up the priesthood to the Negro. "The change will come, and within my lifetime," says Dr. J. D. Williams, 37, a professor of political science and former bishop of the Provo stake (diocese). "The Mormon liberal has for years felt a deep uneasiness over his church's doctrine that Negroes are not worthy to hold the priesthood." And he fully anticipates that the central feature of Mormonism -continuous revelation-will provide...
...cable sent to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, newly arrived in Saigon, just after repressive measures had been taken against Vietnamese Buddhists by the government of Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem. The cable seemed to suggest alternative courses of action the U.S. might pursue to protect its costly stake in the war effort, taking into account the threat of a massive Buddhist uprising against Diem. Lodge was asked for his comments. Importantly, several of the courses of action included the possibility of a U.S.-backed coup to depose President Diem; more importantly, the message was not shown (as it should...